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- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live35:35Reform UK and political parties' naval policiesQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:24:39London docks, shipbuilding and political visibilityNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:26:12Naval advocacy beyond expert circlesNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:21A Falklands defeat could devastate the modern Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:16When offering cuts created a naval cutQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:22Matching Star Wars roles to real naval command skillsQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:26An elderly Beatty would be kept in a policy roleQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)26:14Why war plans are not evidence that leaders wanted warNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)46:59Why a few exceptional battleships posed a different threatNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:14:56Tirpitz still leaves German naval leadershipQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:24What quantum technology means in British defence planningQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:30Who actually shapes British defence procurementQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:34:31The NDAA's annual legislative roleNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:47Royal Fleet Auxiliary integration and LUSV supportQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?20:08Funding sources expose the plan's procurement assumptionsChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:41:35A NATO-first force may lose independent crisis optionsChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:51:10Hybrid Navy growth appears to have become an accelerated replacement planQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:55:28Defence reporting needs service-specific expertiseQ&A
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered0:00Mahan's case for naval preparednessChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered20:04Balanced fleets turn Mahan's warning into force designChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered33:43Naval acts demand speed inside a fixed destroyer cost capNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered46:25Cork service and the wider ocean-coverage gapNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality6:04War of 1812 impressment exposed conflicting citizenship rulesChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality21:02The King's shilling and limits on recruiting abuseChapter
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:32Interwar shipyard closures removed rearmament capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:11Defence ambitions have to match the money providedQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:20Beatty's strengths fit subordinate command better than flag rankQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:03Commodore rank and the US Navy's rear admiral lower halfQ&A
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...7:46NATO focus collides with a wider Royal Navy missionChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...12:42Rifles and warships could not share one procurement cycleNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy3:03Learning from Britain without remaining dependent on BritainNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...44:03Fleet expectations can outstrip funded readinessNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet6:09Internal consensus may explain steady Korean naval procurementNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet9:14Heavy industry becomes a constituency for maritime strategyNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI8:37Offensive design from strategic shortageNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...19:27Speed trials and commissioning politicsNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...43:49Test infrastructure, class size, and readinessNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...26:06Why criticize a fleet plan for outlasting one presidency?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:01:41A thirty-year plan needs political and institutional durabilityNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...5:01:04Could the naming debate change Doris Miller's name?Q&A
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima21:46Russian procurement struggled with industry and distant authorityChapter
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate0:39The 1923 naval law and Dutch destroyer shortfallChapter
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate6:50A coalition split turns naval planning into a crisisChapter
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate9:57When Dutch defence became a left-right fightChapter
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate14:25Queen Wilhelmina keeps the cabinet in officeNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate17:18Perfect solutions at the minimum priceNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate18:44When legislators debate every gun and mountingNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate27:32The risks of waiting for British and American fleetsNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate28:41How an all-or-nothing dispute blocked naval compromiseNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate29:45Planning slack for an uncertain futureNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate31:02Preparing for uncertainty beyond naval procurementNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate33:05Sincere expectations of peace and the means to defend sovereigntyNotable Point
- Bruships17:33Seventy cruisers and treaty bargainingQ&A
- Bruships27:49Legal constraints on armed merchant securityQ&A
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI4:53Brin's industrial program and Italy's divided naval leadershipNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI21:38Mirabello's coal allowance, training, and Adriatic defensesChapter
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:53German fast attack craft and Baltic presenceQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:19Iranian missile-range estimates and European defensesQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:43German MEKO A200 buys and F126 delay riskQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:31Ports need fixed and mobile air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:48Why operator choice determines amphibious ship namesQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:46How Japan could stretch the destroyer label beyond IzumoQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:29:50The panel's explanation for repairing Samuel B. RobertsQ&A
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?0:00Great-power logic behind declaring warChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?6:27American purchases and the Atlantic shadow warChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?8:23American opinion and a separate European warNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?18:29Italy was already overstretchedChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?45:21Alternate history as command analysisChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?48:58Congress authorizes war after the Axis declarationsChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?54:27Pacific-first aid and a delayed Atlantic warNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?1:03:22The political cost of delayed American entryNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)21:06First Destroyer Flotilla and volunteer wordingNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:01:08Delaying warship purchases while the fleet is short of shipsNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:04:51Why the Royal Navy did not repeat InvergordonQ&A
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:05:36Invergordon's 10 percent and 25 percent pay cutsChapter
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:13:41Atlantic Fleet learns through newspapersNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:38:18Tomkinson and the return from InvergordonNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:51:59Why a Labour pay cut carried an extra political stingNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:20Warship target status and submarine rescue limitsQ&A
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More4:27Roosevelt turns the War of 1812 into a naval caseChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More33:35Preparedness beyond the frigate victoriesChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More43:32The Manchester School and America's inward turnChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More52:02Mahan takes sea power to his audienceChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:03:02Demobilization keeps American sea-power advocacy cyclicalNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:22:26A recollection of selective Mahan quotation in CongressNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:34:22Naval policy is national strategyChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:36:28American theorists must justify the Navy itselfNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?44:20Cut taskings before cutting shipsChapter
- How many Warships does your Navy need?48:38Retained core capabilities still take time to expandNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?1:26:16Post-Cold War peace assumptions eroded fleet depthNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:45:50Vague force language obscured what frigates were forNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:47:07The gap between small-combatant force goals and the serving fleetChapter
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:21:58How to write a defense paper that policymakers can useQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:03:31How the Admiralty controlled Royal Navy building plansQ&A
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?34:06Ten-point symbolism became an eight-point charterChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?44:47Expected postwar cuts made disarmament easy to acceptNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?1:06:05Allied integration drew on months of earlier negotiationsChapter
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?32:00The ten-year peace assumption nobody trustedNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!3:46Separate enduring risks from changing threatsChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?40:43Why Ticonderoga became a cruiser on paperNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII18:35Admiralty advice met Canadian political ambiguityNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle2:26:54Why town names still create political support for warshipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II28:15How Admiral Henderson might reform today's Royal NavyQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?14:30Britain first has to abandon submarine abolitionNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:32Belgium's navy was never built for imperial defenseQ&A
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...32:45Defence spending buys readiness before a crisisNotable Point
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:55:10The largest backward steps taken by naviesQ&A
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?58:18A carrier is a support node, not a substitute for its escortsNotable Point
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?1:15:34An admiral turns policy into coordinated fleet effectsChapter
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:13:34Why the Royal Navy accepted fifty cruisers at LondonQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:57The American ships of the line planned before 1812Q&A
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked6:49Why naval power needs a broad public constituencyNotable Point
- How effective was the Russian Navy1:11An 1802 policy rejects major-naval-power statusNotable Point
- How effective was the Russian Navy25:35Separate a navy's capability from how government uses itNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him12:45Congressional limits on the early US NavyNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:06:22Why the seaplane-tender case lost in interwar procurementChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:19:33Logistics arguments need more than a sloganChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:50:07Naval policy needs evidence deeper than headlinesChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:32:06How to write a naval-policy alternate historyQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:33:27How Theodore Roosevelt and Jacky Fisher might have worked togetherQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:02:52A US Navy without Theodore RooseveltQ&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:05:15Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Heligoland grievanceChapter
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier13:31Monroe Doctrine and British enforcementNotable Point
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier40:42The electoral and naval-spending trapNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:00:07Continuous at-sea deterrence logicNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff36:08Naval treaties and acceptable cheatingQ&A
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 211:30Prince Henry becomes the narrow naval workaroundNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign55:12Yes Minister and naval civil-military dialogueNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement1:30Why weapons and warships should not be called toysNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement11:52Know the nation before buying the forceChapter
- Musings on Procurement38:01Procurement risk after the Cold WarNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement44:08Warships, weapons, and the moral weight of commandNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement46:39Credible deterrence requires willingness to actNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement59:54Giving procurement programs time to workNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!53:31Droits of the Crown turn pre-war captures into paymentsNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 35:08Test the strategic case before buying a carrierChapter
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions49:09The Falklands War broke Britain's alliance-planning assumptionChapter
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built49:18How Congress constrained early American ships of the lineQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:49:09Navies need sustained attention, not crisis spending aloneQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built5:02:37How Royal Navy ship names create political anchorsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:10:31Stalin's paradoxical contribution to Soviet naval historyQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism29:11Great frigates could not substitute for an American battle fleetNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism42:22Gunboats could not replace seagoing warshipsNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:10:52Porter's promotion skills outlast his impulsive command styleChapter
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:17:18Why Royal Navy battles were not commanders acting from boredomQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:24:09Royal Navy naming avoided saints and national abstractionsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:57:57Replacing Churchill as First Lord in 1911Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:09:25Which naval leaders to save or remove before 1939Q&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:11:52Reserve destroyers trade bad headlines for real wartime resilienceQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:29:44Calling Scharnhorst a battlecruiser served British force accountingQ&A
- Huáscar: KSS1 S7 Comment Response20:17South American naval power tested the Monroe DoctrineQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships46:38Britain's prewar cycle of borrowing and debt repaymentQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:07:14How naval policy becomes a persistent public issueQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:03:58Britain's Naval Future and caution after the Falklands WarChapter
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:15:09Sturdee, the Washington treaty, and naval aviationNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:44:33How admirals shape policy without controlling itQ&A
- Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare20:05Germany as Britain's muscular allyNotable Point
- Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare24:12Could the muscular-ally policy have worked?Q&A
- Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 627:20Presence, prestige, and a balanced designNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 817:28Josephus Daniels tries to restrain battleship growthNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power26:03Why the Royal Navy had to argue harder for influenceChapter
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power31:37Giving naval power a language for democratic politicsNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power41:00How Corbett acquired authority in naval affairsChapter
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power44:49A strategic translator between admirals and governmentNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)47:59Tillman battleships as a naval-policy questionNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)2:31:06Cunningham, Alan Brooke, and naval policyNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword39:29Dominion fleet choices mixed local budgets with Admiralty influenceQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response7:07What supports the claim that British designers considered American reactions?Q&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response13:54Why American observers could understand Britain's naval buildupQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:23:24Agincourt and the qualitative arms-race gambleQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:31:59Why Agincourt's timing mattered to the proposed arms-race strategyNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:33:15Why politics and unit cost produced the Revenge classQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:34:46Why gun counts could distort perceptions of naval superiorityNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:35:26How personal correspondence informs the gun-policy interpretationQ&A
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:54:31Small ships, aggregate value, and modern OPV successorsNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)17:07Biomass lag and the timber-planning analogyNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)21:24Oak forests and century-scale state planningChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)24:11Taxes, debt, and long-term public investmentNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)36:17Navy-marked trees and unrepealed rightsQ&A
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response11:55French carrier delay and the seaplane compromiseChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response17:25Confidence votes and French planning instabilityNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response19:20Air Ministry politics and naval air powerChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response33:11War losses, depression, and French naval procurementNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century33:26Dockyard infrastructure and state capacityNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century36:50Guard ships after the Dutch War shocksNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century47:02The rating system as budget controlNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century52:05Carronades and rating distortionNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?14:48World War I damage and French leadershipChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?22:05Ministerial churn and carrier decisionsNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?33:17Changing threats and repeated strategic relearningChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?42:31The Maginot Line's budget gravityChapter
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class30:15Interwar naval money was a policy choiceQ&A
- Privatising War: Guerre de Course26:35Why the 1708 Act still requires archival workNotable Point
- Privatising War: Guerre de Course46:00Merchant losses make trade protection a test of naval valueNotable Point
- Privatising War: Guerre de Course48:51Private fleets eventually justify national naval taxationNotable Point
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Early...7:16Nunn-McCurdy cost controls meet procurement politicsChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers30:11Cold War cruiser politics and the 1974 cruiser gapNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers18:46Modern frigates and destroyers in cruiser rolesQ&A
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?4:31Relative naval power and uncertain successorsNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?7:58Investment and training in a long peaceNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy0:15Project 58 and Gorshkov's ascentChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy7:47Reading Gorshkov's rhetoric against procurementNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193926:15Outside the Washington treaty systemNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193932:18Cruisers as a bid for Soviet naval standingChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)36:59Niobe and the political founding of Canada's navyChapter
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace45:15A land-power lens can hide the Soviet need for sea powerNotable Point
- SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 125:23Wilhelm II's naval ambition without long-term investmentNotable Point
- Leander Class(1882): 19th Century Cruisers p65:26Commerce protection shaped the Leander programmeChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:04:34Invincible and Pensacola as politically relabeled shipsQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments18:10Beatty, foresight, and the politics of naval preparationQ&A
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina1:47Mussolini, naval factions, and divided controlNotable Point
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina11:38Why victory meant something different in Italy and JapanNotable Point
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina23:28Mussolini's opportunism destabilized naval requirementsChapter
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:34:22How naval professional input declined across the treaty systemNotable Point
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)45:21Nation-building shaped Austro-Hungarian sea powerNotable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:23:06Was Churchill responsible for Scapa Flow's weak defenses?Q&A
- Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)35:16Was 34 knots also a matter of national prestige?Notable Point
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?2:10:23Could political will have completed the G3s?Q&A
- Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)10:27An expanded cutter service instead of a permanent navyNotable Point
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)22:56A serving officer in ParliamentChapter
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)26:01Naval barracks and the politics of serving officersNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:05:02Cruiser missions survive under the destroyer labelQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties6:38Jutland's political shadow over battlecruisersNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties9:06The Washington Treaty bargain and American parityNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea5:08Non-intervention stretched a weakened Royal NavyChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class0:40Astley Cooper Key and the emerging torpedo threatChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol2:33The 10-year rule and an unexpectedly early warNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol29:31The treaty-exempt sloop fleet Britain did not fundNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol33:47Successive governments and the carrier-priority disputeNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol7:23Marine Raiders as specialistsChapter
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol12:17Why Raiders failed conventional battalion testsNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol40:43The reconnaissance force the Pacific war did not developNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p1/4 - Navalism2:47Churchill's turn toward navalismChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p1/4 - Navalism5:01The eight-dreadnought compromiseNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:04:34Postwar Royal Navy decline was also about choices and leadershipNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices27:48Defence policy when no good choice existsChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:20:20Defense spending as deterrence and skilled employmentNotable Point
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:30:44Keith Speed's informed dissent from the Nott ReviewNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet38:06Congress and Roosevelt's control of the fleet deploymentQ&A
- The Great White Fleet38:20The Roosevelt Corollary, Germany, and the fleet's strategic audienceChapter
- The Great White Fleet47:25Was the Great White Fleet aimed at Americans or foreign governments?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet57:53Roosevelt's political method behind the public imageChapter
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response21:30Postwar peace optimism and premature cancellationNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered6:20Reading Roosevelt's naval legacy selectivelyNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...4:37The Great White Fleet encouraged an Australian navyNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream27:26Building durable political support for the US NavyNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction20:14HMS Hibernia shows the institutional cost of aviation trialsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction31:15Air-power claims collide with interwar budget warsNotable Point
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192021:29Charles I's navy and the politics of public legitimacyNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"30:11Caspar John makes the case for naval aviationChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:11:31How the Admiralty treated Lloyd's viewsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:40:15Finland's postwar submarine restrictionQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?45:15A treaty ceiling can also become a naval budget floorNotable Point